For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. – “The Future”, Essays in Persuasion (1931)
John Maynard Keynes wrote that in 1930. Are we there yet? Oh, wait…
